7 July 1920

I order, in the name of the Council of Labor and Defense, that a circular telegram be dispatched throughout the entire network with categorical prohibition against requisitioning coal fuel without permission from an official representative of the Chief Fuel Authority or a commissioner authorized by the Defense Council, and independently of this, I forbid anyone whatsoever from carrying out any requisition, re-addressing, or detention in transit of all cargo of coke and forge coal for whatever purposes this might be intended and to whatever addresses it might be directed.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Lenin

# RESOLUTION ON THE LETTER OF P. V. STALIN
11 July 1920

To the Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense, Comrade Lenin.

At a conference composed of the Commander-in-Chief, the head of the Field Staff, and the Deputy Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, convened by me recently, the Commander-in-Chief promised to transfer to strengthen the Crimean front a series of military units and technical equipment, a list of which I present to you in accordance with your oral proposal.

List of units and technical equipment:
1) 51st Rifle Division.
2) 1st Rifle Division.
3) 23rd Rifle Division.
4) 9th Rifle Division.
5) 9th Cavalry Division.
6) Volunteer Siberian Brigade.
7) Cadet Brigade.
8) 1st Golberg Brigade.
9) 2nd Golberg Brigade.
10) Golberg Cavalry Regiment.
11) Four Golberg Reserve Squadron units.
12) Nine Reserve Battalions (territorial).
13) Ten thousand reinforcements (by 15 July).
14) In addition to the three armored detachments already dispatched, seven more armored detachments.
15) Tanks, the number of which has not been established.
16) One fighter-bomber division composed of three fighter-bomber detachments.
17) Two reconnaissance detachments (two-seater aircraft).

I. Stalin
11 July 1920.
Moscow, Kremlin.

Deputy Chairman Revolutionary Military Council. I request you return this to me with your notes indicating what has already been fulfilled, what is being fulfilled and when exactly.

Lenin